Java Job Trends in Berkshire

Java
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Java skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 55 46
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 -16
Permanent jobs citing Java 58 80 148
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 2.04% 4.58% 4.84%
As % of the Programming Languages category 14.18% 23.32% 16.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40 33 79
10th Percentile £56,125 £34,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £79,688 £62,500 £50,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -7.14% -
75th Percentile £90,000 £73,750 £86,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £91,750
South East median annual salary £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.69% +8.33% -7.69%

All Programming Languages
Berkshire

Java falls under the Programming Languages category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring coding skills in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for coding skills 409 343 884
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 14.41% 19.63% 28.88%
Number of salaries quoted 299 203 652
10th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £38,750
25th Percentile £48,750 £45,000 £46,831
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - +8.33% -11.11%
75th Percentile £83,750 £83,750 £77,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £85,000 £92,500
South East median annual salary £60,000 £55,533 £55,000
% change year-on-year +8.04% +0.97% -6.78%

Java
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Java relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Java job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Java
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Java

Java
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Java in Berkshire over the 6 months to 10 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Java in Berkshire

Java
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Java within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 10 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Reading -30 37 £82,500 +17.86% 5
Bracknell +7 16 £90,000 +5.88% 2
Wokingham - 4 £83,750 - 1
Windsor - 1 £70,000 -
Java
South East

Java
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.45%) Confluence
1 2 (3.45%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.72%) JBoss
2 1 (1.72%) Red Hat Fuse
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (51.72%) AWS
2 22 (37.93%) Serverless
3 18 (31.03%) Amazon EKS
4 15 (25.86%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (20.69%) Amazon EC2
6 9 (15.52%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (13.79%) Amazon S3
8 5 (8.62%) Azure
9 2 (3.45%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (3.45%) Apigee
9 2 (3.45%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (3.45%) AWS Step Functions
9 2 (3.45%) SaaS
10 1 (1.72%) Amazon SQS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (20.69%) Relational Database
2 11 (18.97%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (8.62%) RDBMS
4 2 (3.45%) DynamoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.45%) MySQL
4 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
4 2 (3.45%) Redis
5 1 (1.72%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.72%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Data Services
Development Applications
1 20 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 13 (22.41%) Git
3 9 (15.52%) GitLab
4 8 (13.79%) JUnit
5 7 (12.07%) JIRA
5 7 (12.07%) JMeter
5 7 (12.07%) Mockito
5 7 (12.07%) SonarQube
6 5 (8.62%) Cucumber
7 4 (6.90%) Artifactory
8 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.45%) Maven
8 2 (3.45%) Mocha
8 2 (3.45%) Selenium
General
1 16 (27.59%) Health Technology
1 16 (27.59%) Public Sector
2 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.07%) Digital Health
4 5 (8.62%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (6.90%) Finance
6 1 (1.72%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.72%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 34 (58.62%) Developer
2 33 (56.90%) Java Developer
3 18 (31.03%) Java Engineer
4 17 (29.31%) Senior
5 11 (18.97%) Backend Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Senior Developer
6 8 (13.79%) Senior Java Engineer
7 7 (12.07%) Senior Java Developer
8 6 (10.34%) SC Cleared Java Developer
8 6 (10.34%) Software Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Developer
9 5 (8.62%) Full-Stack Java Developer
9 5 (8.62%) Python Engineer
9 5 (8.62%) Support Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) AWS Developer
10 4 (6.90%) AWS Engineer
10 4 (6.90%) Cloud Developer
10 4 (6.90%) Senior Backend Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (31.03%) REST
1 18 (31.03%) Spring
2 15 (25.86%) Spring Boot
3 11 (18.97%) JSON
3 11 (18.97%) Web Services
4 10 (17.24%) Elastic Stack
4 10 (17.24%) HTML
5 8 (13.79%) Apache Camel
5 8 (13.79%) Hibernate
5 8 (13.79%) RabbitMQ
6 7 (12.07%) ActiveMQ
6 7 (12.07%) AngularJS
6 7 (12.07%) jQuery
6 7 (12.07%) WireMock
7 6 (10.34%) Java EE
7 6 (10.34%) JPA
8 5 (8.62%) Node.js
8 5 (8.62%) React
8 5 (8.62%) XML
9 4 (6.90%) Mustache
Miscellaneous
1 16 (27.59%) Distributed Systems
2 6 (10.34%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (8.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (6.90%) NHS
5 2 (3.45%) Distributed Architecture
5 2 (3.45%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.72%) PMI
6 1 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.62%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (41.38%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) CI/CD
2 21 (36.21%) Microservices
3 17 (29.31%) DevOps
4 14 (24.14%) SDLC
4 14 (24.14%) TDD
5 12 (20.69%) BDD
6 11 (18.97%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (15.52%) Scrum
8 8 (13.79%) AI
8 8 (13.79%) Full-Stack Development
8 8 (13.79%) Kanban
8 8 (13.79%) Software Engineering
8 8 (13.79%) Workflow
9 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
10 5 (8.62%) Clean Code
10 5 (8.62%) Deployment Automation
10 5 (8.62%) Infrastructure as Code
10 5 (8.62%) Issue Tracking
10 5 (8.62%) LLM
Programming Languages
1 24 (41.38%) Python
2 15 (25.86%) JavaScript
3 8 (13.79%) Shell Script
3 8 (13.79%) SQL
4 7 (12.07%) Groovy
5 5 (8.62%) PL/SQL
5 5 (8.62%) TypeScript
6 3 (5.17%) C++
6 3 (5.17%) Perl
7 2 (3.45%) Bash
7 2 (3.45%) C#
8 1 (1.72%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 20 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 19 (32.76%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.34%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certification
5 2 (3.45%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (3.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.72%) Numerate Degree
6 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 2 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (31.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (34.48%) Kubernetes
2 11 (18.97%) Kibana
3 10 (17.24%) Ansible
4 9 (15.52%) Terraform
5 4 (6.90%) Packer
6 2 (3.45%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) AppDynamics
1 8 (13.79%) IBM
2 7 (12.07%) Dynatrace
2 7 (12.07%) Oracle
2 7 (12.07%) Splunk
3 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.72%) SAP
3 1 (1.72%) Workday